Arabian Post - Hesham El Shamy 140 billion cubic metres – that’s how much natural gas is flared annually, impacting human health, accelerating climate change, and releasing carbon dioxide, methane and black soot. The practice of flaring is a significant economic and environmental problem that the...
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The recent escalation in US-China trade tensions, marked by the imposition of significant tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and a subsequent Chinese anti-dumping probe, signals the potential onset of a renewed trade war between the world’s two largest economies. The news builds on President...
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Here’s a bit of an inside scoop: During the early days of the CHIPS Act, members of the congressional team responsible for drafting the act visited a US ally in East Asia with a substantial domestic semiconductor industry. The head of the semiconductor industry association of that country, along...
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exoplanet known as WASP-107 b Why is the warm gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b so puffy? Two independent teams of researchers have an answer. Data collected using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, combined with prior observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, show surprisingly little methane in...
photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won a bid to appeal against a UK court ruling that approved his extradition to the United States to face trial for breaking national security laws. Two London High Court judges granted Assange permission to appeal, having previously asked Washington to...
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